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Post by Pete Morris on May 16, 2012 14:15:15 GMT
where are these online databases? Perhaps I can help to search them.
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Post by Robert Belford on May 16, 2012 14:17:04 GMT
I've sent you a private message with some info. Do you know which edition? I'll add it to the list of known RECOVERIES!!!!!!!!!! (and THANK YOU!)
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 16, 2012 14:22:15 GMT
Thank you!
(added to the recoveries list, crediting you, obviously!)
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Post by Robert Belford on May 16, 2012 14:45:09 GMT
Thanks Ray! Check your email!
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Post by John Green on May 16, 2012 14:53:22 GMT
Readers may care to look at the tread on this site about audio thefts from the U.S. National Archives,only discovered when the donor saw them on an auction site. Having one copy of a thing is a recipe for disaster.Fire,theft,flood,civil,war,poor conservation,can result in damage or loss. A first step,as Ray and others do-is to highlight what is held,and by whom.Sometimes the archive holders will have little or no idea that what they hold is important or unique. The next step is duplication,which I suspect raises copyright issues,apart from the not-unknown wish to hoard and deny others a chance to view material.
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Post by Robert Belford on May 16, 2012 15:16:23 GMT
I wonder what percentage of audio-visual material exists as one copy only? The vast majority I bet! Getting things duplicated can raise all kinds of practical issues too. The trouble is that often organising a duplicate has no immediate benefit for anyone but a lot of time involved and cost.
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Post by Pete Morris on May 19, 2012 13:46:18 GMT
Can anyone answer: where are these online databases you speak about?
I might be able to help the search, possibly, if you show them to me.
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Post by Robert Belford on May 19, 2012 14:06:04 GMT
I guess the big US universities provide access to their databases via their websites? So it's a case of sussing out which institutions hold collections of film and video and then doing some imaginative searches. Libraries and museums may do the same.
I often look at the photography on the Library of Congress site which has a vast amount of out of copyright material available. It doesn't seem to hold film and tv material though.
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Post by Ray Langstone (was saintsray) on May 19, 2012 23:41:09 GMT
The library of Congress does have a lot of TV and video. Kal and the BFI made loads of finds (returned!!!!!!!!!!!!!!). It's - memory serves under Moving Image/Slide Transparency or something like that. Bear in mind it's nearly one a.m, and I am working on a borrowed PC so that's just a rough guesstimate. worldcat.org links to many Universities and Libraries throughout the world, mainly English speaking. Lot of my finds have come from this.
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